Valentine’s Day (Charles Villiers Stanford)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-19). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 398 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Valentine’s Day
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Charles Kingsley
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1910 Stainer & Bell
Description: Four Part-Songs, Op. 110, No. 1.
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Original text and translations
English text
Oh! I wish I were a tiny browny bird from out the south
Settled among the alder-holts, and twittering by the stream;
I would put my tiny tail down, and put up my tiny mouth,
And sing my tiny life away in one melodious dream.
I would sing about the blossoms, and the sunshine and the sky,
And the tiny wife I mean to have in such a cosy nest;
And if some one came and shot me dead, why then I could but die,
With my tiny life and tiny song just ended at their best.